The announcement arrived late Sunday that Josh Freeman signed a one-year deal worth $3 million with the Minnesota Vikings. The decision catches some by surprise as the team already has two no. 2 quarterbacks so a third would seem like overkill, but what do I know about roster building?

Vikings wanted him for a 2 year deal but josh wanted 1. It's on Ponder to play his butt off to keep his job.

No matter what you think about Freeman (and I personally think why the hell not, what do you have to lose with this signing), at the very least this is a signal that the team has finally given up on Ponder.

I am not entirely against this. I am also not against shoeing a dead horse; the horse isn’t going to get any deader, and you get in some good shoeing practice, so that if you ever have a live horse, you can shoe it with real confidence. The only problem is that you’ll be left with a decaying horse corpse that you could have gotten rid of if you hadn’t spent all that time shoeing, and you’ll have to deal with that sooner or later, probably by sawing it up into smaller pieces and hauling it to the glue factory, or some place that makes dog food.
Anyway, this analogy of rotting horse carcasses and dog food seems to me to really fit the Vikings’ quarterback situation, for some reason.

Statistically, Freeman is a better quarterback. I’ve seen more playing time of Ponder, so all I can say there is that this may be a step up for the Vikings. I’m still shocked at how much Minnesota wrote the check for. Three mil for 12 games? That’s a shitload more than Ponder makes. Unless #12 looks like Pey-Pey for the remaining games I don’t see him staying in Minnesota.